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...wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect...
This afternoon at 4.30 Professor de Sumichrast will give a lecture in the Fogg Museum on the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, and his play, Le Pedant Joue, which is to be produced by the Cercle Francais. The performances of the play will be held on Thursday and Saturday in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, and on Monday and Tuesday of next week in Copley Hall, Boston. The lecture will be open to the public, and seats will be reserved for the patronesses of the play until...
...Cercle, and to representatives of the press. Only those who have received invitations will be admitted. The book of the play which has been published by the Cercle, containing the text of Le Pedant Joue as adapted for the performance, and a sketch of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac by H. B. Stanton '00, will be sold at the door on the evenings of the dress rehearsals and performances. The music for the play will be rendered by the Bohemian Orchestra...
This life of Cyrano de Bergerac will be relished by all who have been delighted with the romantic manliness and nobility of M. Rostand's hero. The actual Cyrano, it was known from the start, had been poetically idealized by M. Rostand; but the extent of the liberties with history could not hitherto be accurately determined. In the light of the present essay, the real Cyrano turns out to have been a brawler and a bully, full of the extravagance of the early free thinkers. "Not at all the man who after overcoming a hundred assassins could turn about...
...estimation of Cyrano de Bergerac's place in the development of French literature, is given a careful, well balanced summary of the pre-classic period in France. Excellent reasons are advanced to prove that this staging of the play by the Cercle Francais will be its first presentation at any theatre. On the whole the author has shown pains-taking study of the authorities and excellent taste...